Twenty-four years of service. One crisis. Three institutions that failed him at once.
Glendon Jackson spent his career in NHS mental health practice, as an Advanced Practitioner and Approved Mental Health Professional trusted with other people's liberty. Then, between 2021 and 2025, his employer, his GP surgery and his local council each turned away from him at the moment he needed them most.
A Conversation with God: Three Battlefields is a disabled worker's testimony from the front line of institutional failure. It traces how a glowing appraisal became exclusion and dismissal, how a request for continuity of care ended with removal from a doctor's list, and how a council safety net became another battleground. It is drawn from diaries, letters and evidence kept with a clinician's discipline.
Woven through it is his mother's own story of faith forged in hardship, together with reflections on Ecclesiastes that ask the oldest question there is: how do you keep trusting God when the answers do not come?
For readers who have:
faced discrimination or disability at workworked in the NHS, nursing or social carelived with late-diagnosed ADHDheld on to faith when the systems around them let goHonest, measured and unflinching, this is not a complaint. It is a witness.